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2021-22学年度第3期总第841期 (6版)

Improving rice for everyone (page 6)

 

I. Fast reading

Read the passage as quickly as possible and find out Yuan Longping’s dreams.

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II. Careful reading

1. Read the passage carefully and choose the best summary.

A. Yuan Longping, the Father of Hybrid Rice.

B. The advantages of giant rice.

C. Yuan Longping’s giant rice variety has been successfully planted.

D. Planting giant rice and raising aquatic animals together is a good way to make money.

 

2. What are the advantages of the new giant rice compared to normal rice?

A. ____: __________________________.

B. ____: __________________________.                   

C. It is resistant to heat, disease and flooding.

D. It provides an ideal habitat for _________________________, whose excrement adds__________________ to the plants.

E. Planting giant rice and raising aquatic animals together may help farmers ______________________________________.

 

3. What's the purpose of the last paragraph?

 

III. Language study

1. Famous agricultural expert Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, died in May at the age of 91.

known as: 意为“作为……出名”，本句中是过去分词短语作______，相当于非限制性定语从句who is known as the father of hybrid rice, 修饰______。

翻译：______________________________________

 

2. A project to plant 1,333 hectares of giant rice variety and introduce aquatic animals is planned in Dazu district, Luo said.

to plant: __________作定语，修饰______, 表示将来。

翻译：______________________________________

 

IV. Post reading

Discussion:

What can we do to help realize Yuan’s dream “to see hybrid rice grown all over the world to help solve the global food shortage”?

 

 

参考答案

I.

To “enjoy the cool shade beneath rice plants taller than men” and to see hybrid rice grown all over the world to help solve the global food shortage.

 

II.

1. Key: C

 

2. A. height: Twice as tall as standard varieties.

B. _yield__: They have an estimated yield of 12 metric tons per hectare (9 for normal rice).

C. It is resistant to heat, disease and flooding.

D. It provides an ideal habitat for __aquatic  creatures and mammals__, whose excrement adds nutrients to the plants.

E. Planting giant rice and raising aquatic animals together may help farmers increase profits by a factor of five or six.

 

3. To provide some related background information.

 

III.

1. 定语; Yuan Longping

著名的农业专家袁隆平，他作为杂交水稻之父而出名，在五月份去世，享年91岁。

 

2. 动词不定式; a project

一个将要种植1333公顷巨型水稻并引入水族生物的项目计划在大足区进行，罗说。

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